Overloaded Functions

[Gary Herron]

Tim Henderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So this may have been asked before but i haven't found the answer by
> googling so far. My situation is this:
>
> I want this structure for my code:
>
> @overloaded
> def sign_auth(secret, salt, auth_normalized):
>     return __sign_auth(saltedhash_bin(secret, salt), auth_normalized)
>
> @sign_auth.register(str, str)
> def sign_auth(secret_hash_normalized, auth_normalized):
>     return __sign_auth(qcrypt.denormalize(secret_hash_normalized),
> auth_normalized)
>
> def __sign_auth(secret_hash_bin, auth_normalized):
>     auth = qcrypt.denormalize(auth_normalized)
>     aes = AES.new(secret_hash_bin, AES.MODE_CBC)
>     plaintext = aes.decrypt(auth)
>     ciphertext = qcrypt.normalize(xor_in_pi(plaintext))
>     if debug:
>         print '\n------sign_auth------'
>         print qcrypt.normalize(secret_hash_bin)
>         print qcrypt.normalize(plaintext)
>         print ciphertext
>         print '-----sign_auth-------\n'
>     return ciphertext
>
> I am using the overloading module from:
> http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/overload/overloading.py?rev=43727&view=log
>
> However it doesn't actually support this functionality. Does any one
> know of a decorator that does this? It would be really nice to have a
> unified interface into the __sign_auth function for the two different
> use cases.
>   

Are you aware that you can do this kind of thing yourself, without using 
a module/decorator.

def sign_auth(*args):
  if len(args) == 3:
    secret, salt, auth_normalized = args
    return __sign_auth(saltedhash_bin(secret, salt), auth_normalized)
  elif len(args) == 2:
    secret_hash_normalized, auth_normalized = args
    return __sign_auth(qcrypt.denormalize(secret_hash_normalized), auth_normalized)

The checks could be more involved, perhaps checking not jsut the nuimber of args, but their types, and even their values, before calling __sign_auth(...).


Gary Herron




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